/tags/guayaquil Guayaquil en-US WLRN Tue, 05 May 2020 01:43:42 GMT /news/2020-05-04/ecuador-health-minister-horrifying-coronavirus-plague-better-contained-now Ecuador's new health minister, Dr. Juan Carlos Zevallos, talks with WLRN's Latin America Report about the "horrifying" experience of trying to get his… Tue, 05 May 2020 01:43:42 GMT /news/2020-05-04/ecuador-health-minister-horrifying-coronavirus-plague-better-contained-now Tim Padgett /show/latin-america-report/2020-04-28/expats-ecuadors-covid-19-meltdown-is-a-warning-for-americans-too No country in Latin America and the Caribbean has been hit as hard by the new coronavirus as Ecuador. Brazil, a far larger country, may have more COVID-19… Tue, 28 Apr 2020 11:00:00 GMT /show/latin-america-report/2020-04-28/expats-ecuadors-covid-19-meltdown-is-a-warning-for-americans-too Tim Padgett /show/latin-america-report/2020-04-13/no-longer-immune-latin-america-caribbean-see-significant-rise-in-covid-19-cases Until this month, it looked like Latin America and the Caribbean might be spared the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Then the world saw the tragic images… Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:14:15 GMT /show/latin-america-report/2020-04-13/no-longer-immune-latin-america-caribbean-see-significant-rise-in-covid-19-cases Tim Padgett /news/2020-04-07/paho-warns-latin-america-especially-nicaragua-coronavirus-accelerating-rapidly Latin America and the Caribbean have so far avoided the scarier level of COVID-19 infection seen in Europe, Asia and the U.S. But the region’s numbers are… Tue, 07 Apr 2020 21:21:21 GMT /news/2020-04-07/paho-warns-latin-america-especially-nicaragua-coronavirus-accelerating-rapidly Tim Padgett